Cinebench R11.5 Benchmarks

Maxon Cinebench is a real-world test suite that assesses the computer's performance capabilities. Cinebench is based on Maxon's award-winning animation software, Cinema 4D, which is used extensively by studios and production houses worldwide for 3D content creation. Maxon software has been used in blockbuster movies such as Spider-Man, Star Wars, The Chronicles of Narnia and many more. Cinebench Release 11.5 includes the ability to more accurately test the industry's latest hardware, including systems with up to 64 processor threads and the testing environment better reflects the expectations of today's production demands. A more streamlined interface makes testing systems and reading results incredibly straightforward.

The Cinebench R11.5 test scenario uses all of a system's processing power to render a photorealistic 3D scene, "No Keyframes" the viral animation by AixSponza. This scene makes use of various algorithms to stress all available processor cores. The OpenGL graphics card testing procedure uses a complex 3D scene depicting a car chase with which the performance of your graphics card in OpenGL mode is measured. During the benchmark tests the graphics card is evaluated by way of displaying an intricate scene that includes complex geometry, high-resolution textures, and a variety of effects to evaluate the performance across a variety of real-world scenarios.

Next we will take a look at a CPU intensive video game, Street Fighter IV.

Very in depth review and I'm sure it took a lot of work. I tested my 920 in a couple of the sames test just for fun and thought I'd post them here. Note that I didn't test it fairly since I didn't shut anything running down, like Winamp streaming music, several network softwares I have running, 2 virus type scanners, Speedfan, and several more programs.

So if I understand correctly, even if the onboard APU isn't powerful enough, you can now add a cheaper card on top of that and the GPU power increases overall? So you could buy an all in one CPU/APU and then add a cheap vid card and perhaps nearly high end graphics capability (Or more modestly, that's the trend)? That's pretty impressive. I will not be sorry to see the days of the must have 500.00USD video card gone.

The thing I'm most curious about is how well the crossfire scales. How far will pairing it with a 6670 get it? Could it meet or exceed the 6700 series? I'm sure we'll see some nice in depth performance and cost analysis concerning this soon.

And usually at a fraction of the noise of a hairdryer style GPU heatsink too! But of course those loud coolers on the high end cards are dissipating FAR more heat than a CPU does. CPU max is 120-140W, while top tier graphics has to deal with 250-350W, or even more!

Though I know you were talking about cheap cards and cheap graphics, so that's all irrelevant. APU's may see some interesting Overclocking profiles, especially if the Bios options become more developed later on. I think people will be most concerned with overclocking with the purpose of improving memory bandwidth to the GPU, as that seems to be the biggest bottleneck on these chips currently.

Indeed. I am glad we mostly agree, but I do want to point out that while many CPUs only generate ~125W stock, tower heatsinks aren't for cooling stock CPUs, but rather CPUs overclocked and drawing ~1.5V, which seriously boosts their power usage.

It's not for no reason that many tower heatsinks advertise the ability to handle 200-250W.

Thanks for the info, let me know if you find out about that 6670 pairing. From the specs I read, the 6670 has the same core count but higher clock speed as the 6570? Might be enough to definitely enter the 6700 territory though.

Somehow on the funny side, for a lot of enthusiasts/heavy users, the comparison with 1366skt procs it's always welcomed.With at least an i7-920 almost everyone can breath silently today and more, it's a solid anchor/pov for everything new on performance side.And i'm always happy when the monopol spectre fades away.

my last 4 CPU's were 4400x2, FX60, i7-950 and now i7-990X (i'm a little gearslut, i know). My point: don't be an absolute fan of one brand no matter what. Depend of your needs, don't ignore the alternative.I'm building my own and others PC for maybe 15 years and with a few gaps,i offer both intel and amd solutions, except high end workstations/ultragaming rigs.

if u choose wise, one platform could be trusful for more than 4 years. For example u need to know two thing to stay in the line: CPU and GPU.- For CPU, first pick one middle, in the budget, and in one year or more seek for the top CPU of the platform which ussualy cost u less than new mainstream CPU and will perform better than next-gen middle for another 1-2 years.- for GPU, pick the mainboard with BOTH SLI and XFire. buy 1st one card u can afford, than go dual. Even if u'll choose the second step to go with one more powerfull card from the copmetition, u'll eventually can go dual with 2 top GPU across 2 generation. sometimes 3. And it works.- Yeah, the RAM, don't go under 6Gs today and PSU, at least 750W GOOOOD brand.

so i really hope AMD will be ok in high end CPU's new generaton.more the choices, better for us.

for the review why is not there a graph with radeon 5570 to see how comperable are the results from something from the amd side??most sites show that a8-3850 is a bit slower than the 5570 so have something in mindwhat a joke release?? an envelod of 100watt??? clearly it eliminates it as an htpc solution.and since the scores are somewhere the athlon II x4 640you can use the previous plattform with athlon II x4 620e with an envelop of 45 wat leaving you 55 watt for a gpu. thus not needing to buy a mobo if you are already a holder of an mad system.a cpu of 45 and a gpu of 55 will means you can go to entirely passive solutions to both. or a an almost silent for the cpu.so why to have one item that you have to upgraqde both when you can have 2 diferent to upgrade????

so far the assymetric crossfire apu +gpu works unter dx11 and dx10and dx9 you get worse score than the apu alone!!!!! (maybe amd should look at this and fix it with some new drivers????)

it is a product that is not having any space to breathsince you can go to better alternates even at the amd sidemobo+apu=200 dollars more or lessnow there is i3-2100 junior out there 2core/4 thread with a tdp35 watt so how a8-3850 can beat that contestor??? paired with a discrete card??

tdp suks, perfomanse something we have seen nothing spectaculara product we could do withoutas an amd user the last system was from amd i can say i am really disapointed for the outcome of amd is that what amd offer to hit intel?!?!!?!?

what is the market this product aims for??the a8-3800 with 65 tdp could be discuseed for the lower tdp but i see it will be blown away with intel copmpinations both in tdp and perfomanse :-(

A8 3850's CPU part is faster than Athlon IIx4, clock to clock, by at least 6%.Athlon IIx4 640+ Radeon HD5570 = 95W+39W = 134W,Llano A8 3850 = 100W with much lower idle power consumption(~44W). No one buys those 'e' or 'T' suffixed under performing parts simply for one obvious reason - PRICE! That junior i3 you mentioned, has a tag of $134 and has the abysmal GPU (HD2000) performance as usual. There is a huge market for entry level budget constrained gaming boxes, Llano will sale like hot-cakes there with a little price-drop. You want a silent, ULV HTPC solution? Go buy a Bobcat system!

as far for clock to clock for 6% is not to be seen as anandtech at their review the average diference was 0.5% when compared clock to clock only in one area it showed the magic 6% as amd said. so the 6% is a marketing ballonwell lets see i3 2100 junior 134$ mobo as low as 40$= 174$a8 115$ mobo 100$+ = 215$ so that leaves you room to buy a gpu 40$the mobo manufacters got it wrong you do not make 100-150$ mobo for the low end you make 50$ mobo for that cpu and maybe a model at 100$ for the more enthusiast who do not mind to pay some extra so liano need cheaper mobo and a price drop if it wants a share of the marketbut the problem remains a8 needs it is own mobo due to his socketwhy entrap yourself to a socket of midle to low powered machines when you can go to an am3 solution or am3+ solution now and be ready for bulldozer??? a matx mobo for amd can be found for 40-50$ thus freeing you with some money for the cpu so you can have the mobo and the energy efficient athlon at the same cost you will get today the a8 and his mobo. if you already had a system you can moove you gpu or pay 50-60$ more to get a 5570 and you have the same system as perfomanse with better options. to upgrade.bobcat is nice but zotac has a mobo out with su2300 thus making it a better option than bobcat. ion2 is more or less equal to bocat igpu but su2300 is superion to bobcat in powerpower consumption small diferense not that huge and even at idle su2300 wins. so bobcat!?!?!? again it will play role if amd or mobo manufacters drop the price so the bobcat will be more attractive due price only.thats the only thing left to amd nowdays the complete cheaper but intel is hammering amd hard even at that sector nowdays.if amd had released liano before intel cpus now we would talk what a failure the intel launch isbut now intel beat amd and he compare her to intel and she looses badly :-(

I do hear that AMD will be phasing out AM3 fairly rapidly though. I expect we will soon see some clearance pricing on Athlon II and Phenom II as soon as Bulldozer is officially launched. AMD's plan is to have Bobcat for low, Llano for middle, and Bulldozer for high, and plans to get rid of the old models fast.

But as you point out in terms of socket compatibility, this chip is not marketed to people who have an existing AM3 platform, its for new consumers. The socket is a necessary evil at this point, since the AM3 socket is not designed for the extra data needed to deal with the GPU. That said, I would definitely not pay $150 for a Llano motherboard. I'd pay $100 at maximum.

I decided to order up this CPU and an F1 board next week. I have 4GB of DDR3-1600 HyperX RAM laying on the shelf along side a XFX Radeon HD6870 Black video card. We'll see how it all goes together for me. The thing is that if it doesn't turn out to be a keeper, I can sell it without a discrete GPU with it and not lose anything for the trying. I think it will work out to be a nice little gamer.